> Not normally. Your standard NIC does not have sensors for measuring such > things and doesn't expose that information to the OS. >
That's what I figured. But I figured if the NIC could give raw access to the line then maybe something could be done in software. > You might be able to estimate the quality of a network cable by transferring > random data across it from one Debian host to another and measuring the > speed. (Or, probably better, the ratio of (packets dropped because of > checksum failure) / (total packets sent)). I could probably script that. It would be good for testing the router as well. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
